Noto Sans Adlam by Google — Sans Serif Font — preview 11 / 3
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About Noto Sans Adlam Font

Noto Sans Adlam is a joining (cursive) unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the African Adlam script. Noto Sans Adlam has multiple weights, contains 362 glyphs, 8 OpenType features, and supports 149 characters from 3 Unicode blocks: Adlam, Basic Latin, General Punctuation. Supported writing systems Adlam Adlam ( 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪 ) is an African bicameral alphabet, written right-to-left. Used for the Fulani (Fula, 65 million speakers) language in Guinea, which previously used Latin and Arabic. Created around 1989 by two teenage brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry. One of indigenous scripts for specific languages in West Africa, currently taught in Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia and other countries. Adlam has 28 letters, each in four forms. The unjoined variant is suitable for headlines and for educational content. The cursive variant, in which letters join the same way as in Arabic and N’Ko, is suitable for most texts. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource , Unicode , Wikipedia , Wiktionary , r12a .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Noto Sans Adlam Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Sans Adlam
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Sans Adlam Regular
Version3.001
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count653 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoSansAdlam-Regular
DesignerMark Jamra, Neil Patel
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size133.3 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Sans Adlam ships with 2 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Case-sensitive forms
  • Ordinals
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Noto Sans Adlam supports 283 languages.

How to Install Noto Sans Adlam Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Sans Adlam font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Noto Sans Adlam is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Noto Sans Adlam Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Noto Sans Adlam Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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